National Maritime Union and Seafarers International Union: Reference Files of the Seafarers International Union Bulk, 1937-1969 1878-1981 , (Bulk 1937-1969)

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National Maritime Union and Seafarers International Union: Reference Files of the Seafarers International Union Bulk, 1937-1969 1878-1981 , (Bulk 1937-1969)

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In monitoring their chief rival, the National Maritime Union (NMU), the Seafarers International Union (SIU) collected newspaper clippings on the NMU, as well as material written by and about its president, Joseph Curran. Material on the Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor (WCNYH), established in 1953 to investigate, deter, and remedy criminal activity and oversee fair hiring practice in New York Harbor, was also included. These reference files contain photocopies of clippings from the NMU Pilot, a quarterly publication, and from national papers such as the New York Times, San Francisco Call Bulletin, and New York World Telegram, many of them following Curran’s career and documenting charges of fraud and racketeering on the New York City waterfront. The collection also includes files on the SIU, containing clippings and other historical material on the union and its presidents, Paul Hall and Frank Drozak.

4.5 linear feet; (5 boxes)

Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 6331959

Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives

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National Maritime Union

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The National Maritime Union (NMU) was an American labor union founded in May 1937 representing workers in the merchant marine. It affiliated with the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) in July 1937. After a failed merger with a different maritime group in 1988, the union merged with the Seafarers International Union of North America in 2001....

Seafarers' International Union of North America

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The Historical Research Department of the Seafarers International Union (SIU) kept extensive files on Joseph Curran, president of the NMU from 1937 until his death in 1981. “Big Joe” Curran, then an inactive member of the conservative International Seaman’s Union, founded the Seaman’s Defense Committee during a wildcat strike in 1936 on the Panama Pacific Line's S.S. California. The Committee was renamed the National Maritime Union in 1937, and Curran became its first president. He ...

Hall, Paul

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Drozak, Frank

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Curran, Joseph Edwin, 1906-1981

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Labor union executive. From the description of Reminiscences of Joseph Curran : oral history, 1964. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309731534 ...

Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor

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